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• Amazon Army March
  Local women recreated the historic 1921 Amazon Army March on a country road near Capaldo. The march was taped and will form part of a segment on the march for the PBS TV program “Sunflower Journeys.”
  http://www.morningsun.net/archive/x2078601886/Amazon-Army-March Thu Jul 19 2012 17:32:32 GMT-0500 (CDT)
• Marching ever onward
  CAPALDO — The first Amazon Army March started on Dec. 12 from the Franklin Miners Hall and included about 3,000 women.
  http://www.morningsun.net/archive/x1903093335/Marching-ever-onward
  Sat Jul 14 2012 14:00:00 GMT-0500 (CDT)
• Woman reenacts scene from her own infant life
  Eva Richard Gartner, 91, was the only person in the recreation of the Amazon Army March Friday who was in the actual march in December of 1921.
  http://www.morningsun.net/archive/x1903093331/Woman-reenacts-scene-from-her-own-infant-life
  Sat Jul 14 2012 16:00:00 GMT-0500 (CDT)
• 'Sunflower Journeys' to explore the Amazon
  In December of 1921 the eyes of the nation turned to southeast Kansas as a group of wives, daughters, sisters and sweethearts of striking miners marched to support their menfolk in their struggle for decent pay and safer working conditions.
  http://www.morningsun.net/archive/x1903092522/Sunflower-Journeys-to-explore-the-Amazon
  Fri Jul 13 2012 15:00:00 GMT-0500 (CDT)
• Amazon Army re-enactment
  A group of women re-enacted the Amazon Army's march on Friday as part of a segment for the television show "Sunflower Journeys."
  http://www.morningsun.net/archive/x1992161574/Amazon-Army-re-enactment
  Fri Jul 13 2012 18:03:21 GMT-0500 (CDT)
• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The Topeka Connection - Pittsburg, KS ...
  http://www.morningsun.net/newsnow/x1903094291/LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR-The-Topeka-Connection
  Jul 17, 2012 – It was good to see the Friday front page story re: the Amazon Army ... at Topeka's fine non-commercial television station, KTWU Channel 11.
• Miners' Hall Museum holds grand opening
  When the ribbon is cut, that makes it official. The Miners’ Hall Museum is officially open in Franklin..
  http://www.morningsun.net/archive/x1120190105/Miners-Hall-Museum-holds-grand-opening
  Wed May 02 2012 16:00:10 GMT-0500 (CDT)
• Dedication of 2007

• 'Amazon Army' protested unfair labor | Wichita Eagle
  http://www.kansas.com/2010/10/04/1525746/amazon-army-protested-unfair-labor.html
  Oct 4, 2010 – This is one in a series of vignettes celebrating history. The series' name comes from the state motto, Ad astra per aspera: "To the stars through ...

• 'Amazon Army' remembered
  ...the organized marches of as many as 7...owners. Dubbed the "Army of Amazons" by the...beginning on Dec. 12, 1921. The story of the...commemorating the marches between 4 and 6 p...during which the women's army made the rounds on...
  http://www.cjonline.com/stories/120901/kan_amazons.shtml

• Teacher mines regional history
  Lessons include grandma's march
  Linda O'Nelio Knoll teaches a history that her grandmother helped to make.
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• The Amazon Army Marker
  www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=35692
  The Amazon Army
Marker Photo, Click for full size. By William Fischer, Jr., August 7, 2010. 1. The Amazon Army Marker. Inscription. The women's march